Susanna West Dill and John McCrea

The first child of Robert Foster Dill and Catherine Haughton Rentoul was Susanna West Dill (1841-1931). Susanna was named after her great-grandmother, Susanna West, who was still alive and living in Downpatrick at this point.

She married John McCrea, who died in Belfast on the 18th December, 1876, aged thirty-seven. John was a doctor. Susanna was still resident in Windsor Ward, Belfast, County Antrim, in 1911. 

They had five children, all fourth cousins of Hetty Jane Owen.

i. Robert Foster McCrea (1871-) was born in Belfast, At the time of the 1911 census, he was living in Donaghdee, County Down.

ii. John McCrea (1872-) was born in Belfast. It is possible but not certain that he emigrated to Watertown, Massachusetts, USA.

iii. Mary Moreland McCrea (1873-1952). She was both born and died in Belfast.

iv. Samuel Marcus McCrea (1875-). He was born in Belfast and may have married into the Boyd family.

v. Hugh Moreland McCrea  (1877-1941) married Kate Rose Hannen (1876-1955). He was born in Belfast and died in 20 Devonshire Place, Marylebone, London, England, He married Kate on August 22 1908 at St Mary’s church, Wergrave, Berkshire. 

Sir Nicholas Hannen was another brother of
Charles Hannen. He was also a judge,
and was consul-general in Shanghai between
1891 and 1897. He was educated at the
City of London School. One of his sons,
Nicholas 'Beau' Hannen went on to be
a successful stage and film actor.
Such were the circles
that Hugh Moreland McCrea,
fourth cousin of Hetty-Jane Owen moved in.

Kate was the daughter of Charles Hannen and niece of Lord Hannen, the famous English judge. 

Hugh was also a doctor and was awarded an OBE. 

More curiously, he seems also to have taken out in 1927 a patent for a new device for helping practitioners improve their billiards skills, the abstract for which follows below:

303,218. McCrea, H. M. Oct. 6, 1927. Billiards and croquet practising appliances.-A device for use in practising billiards, croquet and similar ball games comprises a semi-circular disc or plate a having markings of angular degrees thereon and formed at the centre of the arc with carrying means for a pair of hinged arms b, b<1> which are adapted for independent angular movement over the face of the disc or plate to determine the angle and to indicate a sighting line and the position for the ball in play. An indicator arm d is rigidly attached to the disc a or to the hinged joint of the arms b, b<1>. Stops c enable the arms b, b<1> to be set in alignment. Suitable friction devices hold the arms in their adjusted positions. The arms may have hinged or telescopic extensions. In using the device, e.g. to play a half-ball stroke off the red ball into a pocket, the arms b, b<1> are set as shown at, say 146‹ and the hinge is placed in contact with the red ball g so that the indicator arm d coincides with the diametrical centre line of the ball g and the angularly-set arm b points to the centre of the pocket h. The arm b<1> now indicates the line of aim for the white ball i. After taking aim along the arm b<1>, the device is removed and the stroke may be made.

Hugh and Kate had two children:

i. Catherine Fanny McCrea (1909-) married John Denman Finlaison (1903-1953). Catherine was born in Paddington, London. They had three children.

ii. Betty Joan McCrea (1920-2007) married David L Evans. Betty was born in London, and died in Watford, Hertfordshire.